The bears are whuppin' us this fall so far. Dan and Lee recently returned
empty-handed from a second try for bear in Minnesota, as did I last weekend
after going hunting four straight nights in the UP for bear and not seeing a
single bear. They were not hitting some of the baits and remain nocturnal at
the others. I'll be heading up in another week for one final go at it.In the deer woods, I missed a golden opportunity on a nice buck this past
week because of work! I saw a nice 8 point, about a 125-130" 3.5 year old,
which is a nice buck around my parts of Michigan here, on my way to work. I
glassed him for several minutes and knew right where he was headed to bed. I
just KNEW he'd be back out in the evening in a certain spot I've regularly
seen them return to in the evening. But as work and luck would have it, I
got caught up in a meeting until 6:30pm and wasn't able to scoot out early,
hang a stand and kill this buck. Sure enough, when I passed by the area at
7pm, there he was, feeding contently right where I would have been
setup....so it goes.... I setup for a morning sit at midnight that night.
Overnight rains helped the setup but I don't think helped the buck stay on a
pattern. I saw a small buck in the morning was all.
Now it's Saturday night and I just returned from a scouting mission. I saw
the buck again! I'll be setting up on him tomorrow evening....we'll see how
it goes this time! More to come. Get out in the woods whenever you can blood
brothers....
